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a disc of abrasive material that rotates in a tool such as a sander
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A device formerly used by gold-miners for grinding auriferous quartz, crudely resembling a mortar and pestle, with the crushing element dragged around by horse or mule.
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Alternative form of arrastra [A device formerly used by gold-miners for grinding auriferous quartz, crudely resembling a mortar and pestle, with the crushing element dragged around by horse or mule.]
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A type of grinder in which particles suspended in a liquid are moved by paddles and are ground as they collide with each other or with the grinding medium.
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To use the backgrinding process in semiconductor manufacture.
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A device that grinds material very finely by means of a horizontally rotating drum containing ceramic or metal balls
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A mill that grinds bark and roots into a fine powder for use in tanning.
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An early rotary quern having a roughly hemispherical upper stone and a conical central hopper to hold the grain that falls down a hole to the grinding surface.
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A grinder, typically with a pair of grinding wheels (one at each end of the motor shaft) that is designed to be permanently mounted on a workbench.
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(engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
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A type of box iron into which heated coals are placed.
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A component of a traditional mill, creating a vibratory motion to impel portions of grain toward the millstone.
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A machine consisting of two rotating wheels, used by gold miners to break apart rocks.
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(agriculture, farming) A large horizontal cogwheel turned by oxen or horses.
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(engineering) A type of machine that grinds up solid materials, especially in waste treatment
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A mill where corn is ground.
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Device to grind the bone fragments that remain after cremation or aquamation into fine powder.
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A machine designed to crush rocks.
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deal; wood that is relatively soft and easy to saw
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A small steel mortar used for pulverizing hard substances.
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A machine for crushing or pulverising oil cake, mineral ores, etc.
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(transitive) To crush ore with a dolly.
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(idiomatic) A formulaic phrase for a miller, related to the dust generated in the milling process.
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A mill for crushing or grinding in which stones roll around on their edges on a level circular bed.
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A mill-like device utilizing an air blast to winnow grain, using riddles and sieves
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A mill or factory in which animal feed is manufactured
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Alternative form of feed mill [A mill or factory in which animal feed is manufactured]
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(mining, historical) An obsolete appliance for lighting a miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to produce a shower of sparks, which gave light without igniting the firedamp.
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(now historical) Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.
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A machine for breaking material into fragments.
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Alternative spelling of glue-boiler [A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.]
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Alternative spelling of glue-boiler [A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.]
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A machine that forms material into granules
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To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
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A power tool with a spinning abrasive disc, used for grinding, smoothing, and shaping materials, usually metal.
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A mill where something is ground.
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(UK, archaic) A cotton-spinning machine.
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(engineering) functional unit of an apparatus that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces
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A stone tool, used with a quern, to grind cereals
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(figuratively, by extension) Something that wears down or harms by attrition.
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An abrasive wheel for sharpening, polishing or grinding.
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Grain that is to be ground in a mill.
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(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.
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Alternative spelling of gristmill [A mill that grinds grain, especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for the flour (less a percentage).]
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(idiomatic, chiefly UK) Alternative form of grist for the mill [(idiomatic) Something that is useful or that creates a favorable opportunity.]
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A mill that grinds grain, especially grain brought by a farmer to be exchanged for the flour (less a percentage).
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A machine for crushing raw material. It consists of two vertical cones that are moved by a cam. Material is progressively crushed and falls out of the bottom.
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(transitive) To shred or crush by means of a hammermill.
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A mill for grinding grain, pepper, coffee, etc. worked by hand as distinguished from those driven by steam, water, or other power.
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A process of making flour from grain by several successive grindings and intermediate sorting, instead of by a single grinding.
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The supporting frame of a run of millstones.
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A small ball mill with a jar-like drum.
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A kind of Danish ball mill with a peripheral discharge.
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A tray for carrying the powder in a powder mill.
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A mill for grinding white lead.
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A limestone-processing facility.
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A process of making flour from grain by a single grinding and by siftings.
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A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
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a stone resembling a rolling pin, used to grind maize or other grain on a metate
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A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
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A machine for grinding ingredients and mixing them when making chocolate (or rarely nut butter, etc), consisting of roller stones inside a drum.
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A flat stone with a slightly concave surface, used with another stone (a mano) for grinding maize or other grains.
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A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
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(ironworking) A rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
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A classroom exercise in which students have to mill around to exchange information.
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A pick for dressing millstones.
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A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive a mill wheel.
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Alternative form of millstream [The water that runs through a millrace to power a mill.]
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Alternative form of mill race [A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive a mill wheel.]
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(dated) Alternative form of millstone. [A large round stone used for grinding grain.]
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(historical) A rod by which a millstone was trundled from the quarry to the mill.
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Alternative form of mill dam [A dam constructed across a river or stream to raise the water level so that it can turn a millwheel; also, the millpond so created.]
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A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill.
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A domestic building that is also a mill.
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A rich class of people who own mills.
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Alternative form of mill race [A fast-running water-filled channel diverted from a river or stream used to drive a mill wheel.]
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An iron support, usually four-armed or cross-shaped, for the turning ("runner") stone in a pair of millstones.
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Alternative form of millrind [An iron support, usually four-armed or cross-shaped, for the turning ("runner") stone in a pair of millstones.]
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A large round stone used for grinding grain.
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The machinery and mechanisms of a mill.
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(business) A small mill, especially a steel mill using electric-arc furnaces only for steelmaking.
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A traditional Mexican stone tool, equivalent in function to a mortar and pestle, used for grinding food.
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(archaic) Relating to milling.
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The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
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A device that crushes a material into morsels
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A device made up of a bowl (the mortar) and a heavy, blunt object (the pestle), the end of which is used for crushing and grinding ingredients or substances into a fine paste or powder.
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(art) A grinding stone, held in the hand, used especially for preparing paints and powders.
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A grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.
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A factory in which vegetable oil is extracted from seeds or beans by milling
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a tumbling mill that grinds or pulverizes materials without contaminating them with iron; used especially for ceramic ingredients
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(US dialectal, historical) A kind of rice mill.
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(Southern US) Any small-scale production operation.
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A machine that converts a material into pellets
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Alternative form of pepper mill [A small handheld grinder containing a supply of peppercorns for grinding fresh at the table or in the kitchen.]
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A club-shaped, round-headed stick used in a mortar to pound, crush, rub or grind things.
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A rolling mill used in the pilgering process
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A mill that comminutes materials by the action of pins that repeatedly move past each other.
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The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.
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mill that manufactures black powder (type of gunpowder)
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A mill in which gunpowder is made.
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An industrial machine that is used in food processing for the initial grinding or breaking up of large (often frozen) chunks.
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the device used for producing prill agglomerates
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One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.
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A kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for art or brickmaking. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.
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A machine in which materials are simultaneously ground and mixed with a liquid.
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(now chiefly historical) A machine designed to crush quartz in order to extract gold.
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A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.
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Alternative spelling of quern [A mill for grinding corn, especially a hand-mill made of two circular stones.]
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Alternative form of arrastra [A device formerly used by gold-miners for grinding auriferous quartz, crudely resembling a mortar and pestle, with the crushing element dragged around by horse or mule.]
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A device for further crushing material that has already been through a larger crusher.
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To mill or mint with reeding.
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A device for regrinding.
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(transitive) To mill (lumber) again: to resaw.
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Alternative form of rynd (“type of support for a millstone”) [A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.]
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A building housing and powering such a device.
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Alternative form of rice mill [A rice huller, a device for removing the outer husks of raw grains of rice.]
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An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
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Alternative form of roller mill [(historical) A simple mill, often powered by animals, which grinds a material (grain, olives, chalk, etc) between a stationary horizontal stone disk and two vertical stone cylinders, in order to produce flour, olive oil, etc.]
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(historical) A simple mill, often powered by animals, which grinds a material (grain, olives, chalk, etc) between a stationary horizontal stone disk and two vertical stone cylinders, in order to produce flour, olive oil, etc.
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A disc formed by throwing water on molten metal.
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A metal disc charged with wet emery, etc., for grinding gems.
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A pair or set of millstones.
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The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
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A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone, by which the stone is supported on the spindle.
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A device for mechanically pulverizing a sample of material, used by scientists.
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A windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind. It is different from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post.
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The 'resort' (right) of specific farmers to have their grain ground at a specific mill or, inversely, the right of a mill to that custom.
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type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores
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(chemistry) A short magnetic bar with a covering of, usually, Teflon; used with a magnetic stirrer in laboratory work to stir a chemical solution.
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A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
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Describing flour that has been ground with millstones rather than steel rollers
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A machine to remove the stones (pits) from fruit.
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A mill for crushing ore, powered by horses or mules.
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A stone pestle used in Mexican cuisine, often cylindrical in shape and used with a molcajete.
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A mill for clearing lands of tide water.
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(historical) A portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.
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Stray metal objects (such as drill bits, anvils, and hardware) in the feed material as it applies to the process of aggregate production, i.e. rock crushers.
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(manufacturing) A mechanism which pounds material into a more compact form for further processing; found for example in cotton gins and trash processors.
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A mechanical device for triturating.
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A machine, consisting of a drum that rotates on a horizontal axis, that grinds or pulverizes material mixed with a grinding material such as iron balls.
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Alternative form of waulkmill [A mill for waulking or fulling cloth.]
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The process of milling with a watermill.
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(archaic) A mill for grinding gorse (whin) for use as feed for horses.
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(transitive) To scrub with a stone of this kind.
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An inclined percussion table for dressing ore, usually with longitudinal grooves in its surface, agitated by side blows at right angles to the flow of the pulp.
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A kind of post mill whose main post is bored to take a driveshaft, so that the mill can drive machinery in the base or roundhouse.
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(Australia) To separate (grain or pieces of mineral) by shaking in a special shallow dish
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